The Public Procurement Service (PPS) announced Wednesday that it held a kickoff meeting for the "Procurement Reform Implementation Task Force" to implement its public procurement reform plan in the field, officially launching its execution.
The PPS is pursuing a comprehensive redesign of the public procurement system through 70 tasks across four areas: expanding autonomy for demand agencies, strengthening competition, price and quality management, fostering innovative procurement and AI industries, and reinforcing socially responsible procurement.
The agency plans to hold task force meetings twice monthly to regularly monitor progress on reform tasks and carefully analyze the impact on the procurement industry, demand agencies and the market to support institutional settlement.
"The success of reform depends not only on swift execution but also on monitoring and feedback during the implementation process," said Kang Sung-min, Deputy Administrator of the PPS. "We will listen closely to opinions from the field and do our best to create changes that the public and businesses can feel."